Perish the thought. This could not really be happening, could it? Or at least not the way Dave Maloney so bluntly put it after King Henrik’s Game 3 OT el foldo.
“Tampa,” Maloney said on MSGulag’s TV postgame show Wednesday night after the Rangers’ 6-5 loss, “seems to get into the gray matter of Henrik Lundqvist.”
Coming from Maloney, who has been known to wave the pom-poms during Rangers radiocasts, this was devastating analysis. It was not about Lundqvist’s positioning himself too deep in goal, or some kind of statistical trend, or his teammates’ lack of support.